You and your neighbors can use the steps on this page to help each other get prepared. You can also use this process with a group of friends, people from your faith community, a group of co-workers, etc.

Identify the neighbors you want to invite. While ten to 20 households makes a manageable and efficient group, you can invite whatever number of households makes sense to you.

Set a meeting date and location to talk about preparing together.

Print out your Neighborhood Host Kit and selectedPreparedness Handouts. The PREP Host Kit includes a checklist agenda and sign-in sheet for your first meeting, a flyer you can fill in and copy for your neighbors, signs, and PREP Bingo, an optional icebreaker.You'll need one copy per household of the flyers and handouts, plus one copy per person of the PREP Bingo cards.

Personally invite your neighbors. You can leave the flyerwith them as a reminder of the meeting place, day, and time.

On the meeting day, put up the “Meeting Here” sign(s).

Conduct the meeting using the simple-to-follow agenda.

After the meeting, please let us know how it went. Click hereto answer a few simple questions and provide any feedback.